Dialect of Distant Harbors

Dipika Mukherjee is the author of two novels, Shambala Junction and Ode to Broken Things, and a short story collection, Rules of Desire. She has published two books of poetry, The Palimpsest of Exile and The Third Glass of Wine. She teaches at the Graham School at the University of Chicago, as well as StoryStudio Chicago.

“Mukherjee's latest poetry collection is a penetrating, intercontinental and reflective sheaf of poems on aging, illness, faith, and family written in a keen diasporic music. Mukherjee is skilled in various poetic forms. Her vision is clear and her sensory awareness of the stuff of human experience is stunning. As she says, ‘sometimes the third eye is a camera, / sometimes a fist to the heart.’”

• Wanderlust GhazalBangkok, 1956SleepDreamscapes: HaibunBuddham Sharanam GachchamiAwshukh; DiseaseMonsoon; DelhiK Block, Chittaranjan ParkGoing back to where I’m fromTurn awayThis ShawlRewoundAfter the Ice-stormA QuestionThese Words Once Danced in Red JootiesPrinters Row, ChicagoWhile his Guitar Gently Weeps, I turnAt Door County, WisconsinDynamiteDescent from the Winter GardenDreamers, 2017Foreign PassportSay The NamesDeath, A CrowSupermoon in AprilLearning not to ApologizeSaudadeBenign NegligenceMigration, Exile...These Are Men’s WordsThe Dialect of Distant HarborsA Diptych at the SeasideKeeping the FaithHindustani Musalmaan: An Indian MuslimSempiternal FireAmsterdam!Guan Yin in the HuangshanMountain EchoesIt may have been the third glass of wineDamp Red Earth and Pouring Rain (Pankti)Aphorisms from the Malay Archipelago